Branch files brief in support of HB 2

State Rep. Dan Branch, who is running to replace Greg Abbott as attorney general, filed an amicus brief Monday with the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in support of two HB2 provisions currently being considered by the court.

The provisions being challenged in court deal with admitting privileges for abortion providers and regulations for pill-induced abortions.

“There is an obvious rational basis to the admitting-privileges requirement—safeguarding the health and safety of Texans—and the requirement does not impose an undue burden on any constitutionally protected rights,” Branch writes in the brief. “Additionally, the district court erred in carving out an additional, overbroad exception to the medication limitations, even though H.B. 2 already provides for all exceptions necessary to survive constitutional scrutiny.”